倡议
chàng yì · HSK 7
to suggest
📢 CHANG-e sings her proposal, everyone agrees — thats an initiative
Chang (chàng) echoes like the moon goddess Chang'e calling out. Yi (yì) means idea or proposal. Together: to sing out an idea, to propose or initiate something for the group.
议 — speech radical 讠 (言) + 义 (yì, righteousness)
议 is a semantic-phonetic compound. The speech radical 讠 (言) signals meaning related to talking, while 义 supplies the sound 'yì'. Together they convey discussing or deliberating—literally 'speech about what is right,' which fits its modern senses of 'discuss' and 'proposal.'